I'd say Trump & Biden are a toxic mix of US unilateralism and bad policy. Of course, Biden upheld the surrender deal that Trump did with the Taliban. ...
When it comes to Afghanistan, you should start by defining what success would be. Yet basically Saudi-Arabia has it's legal system based on Sharia law...
Let's remember that there still is "the old" capitalist China. It's name is Taiwan. I think the prosperity and the success of Taiwan clearly shows wha...
:roll: Hardly allegiance to the European project, but if to "loyally serve the Federal Republic of Germany and to courageously defend the right and th...
Call it mass delusion, but I genuinely think that the CCP members, especially the leaders, believe what they are saying. They truly think that they ar...
Except that the CCP think of themselves as true Marxists. They are what Marxists have become in China. It is Marxism in the Chinese context, socialism...
Not only Finland, but the Eastern members too. And what about Spain, Portugal, Greece? You see, EU enlargement has gone far forward from the start fro...
Nobody is saying that they don't a role. It's one group that supported integration, but not the only one. Well, bankers usually do fund various projec...
Never heard of Boko Haram in Nigeria? Or the Benghazi attack in Libya and the present situation in the country? Or Al-Shabaab in Somalia? Or about Nus...
Yet the war was actually the Global War on Terror, which Afghanistan was only part of. Notice that you have fought that war also Iraq, Syria, Yemen, S...
I think there is and ought to be experience. Yet it simply doesn't matter. Those deciding don't have the experience, even if the establishment has col...
The real interesting question is why such idiots as the neocons, like Wolfowitz, did get into power? There's really something wrong with the "Blob", t...
That apparently happened when the US left SE Asia (Vietnam and Thailand etc.) Even if, we have to admit, they have been in South Korea (and Japan) all...
Ummm.. should we call this representative democracy and forming new political parties? Don't think you are bound by law to have just two. Even if they...
Yes, but as I've pointed out earlier, you had a lot of same Republicans that managed the Gulf War quite decently: objectives were met, UN and Soviet U...
You can see that obviously there is this sense of things not being right. There is this underlying anger in the country that can sometime erupt. The q...
It's very well documented how Cheney and the neocons pushed for the war in Iraq. I think the extreme hubris came from the fact that then there wasn't ...
When Norway, lead typically by social democrats and having a huge wealth from oil revenues, doesn't spend as much money as the US does in health care ...
That's a perfect example of an actual company getting close to a monopoly situation. Add there just how Microsoft became to be so important. I would a...
One should remember that a lot of this public discourse is what in the old days is called propaganda. Or jargon, lithurgy. Intended for some target au...
It's not about speed. It's about having some sanity in what your objectives are and taking into account the objectives of the participants. Let's talk...
I think I got it now. It's basically about individualism and collectivism. What things are understood to be a collective effort, basically being finan...
Do notice that I was questioning the reasoning itself. Let's not forget, intervention and the now so-hated "nation building" worked in the Balkans. Bo...
And you perfectly show with that example that in the US it isn't pure "free market" health care. The government and the public sector still has a huge...
Do notice that if a large player leaves the scene, it likely will cause a power struggle of the void it leaves behind even if nobody actually wants a ...
Other G7 country leaders urged the US to prolong the deadline, but Biden will go with the 31st deadline. I think there are extremely large implication...
When anything becomes to be worshipped, just ignore the worship and the worshippers. What you are describing is when it has become an ideology, a pseu...
Yes. And let's remember that also part of the money goes to for example medical malpractice insurances and bureaucracy. Or it could be explained simpl...
Don't you see the link? I think it's obvious. If you have market privatization of health care, it is very likely that the services of doctors salaries...
Well, it's not just the CEO's that have good salaries. Overall, the US health care sector enjoys good salaries...which basically makes it so expensive...
I think that in every country it is an issue just where to draw the line with personal responsibility and where public funding is used. Naturally not ...
Then perhaps it's better to make a more specific questions. Let's look at markets. They can either function well or not so well in an economy. And the...
What's so great with central planning? In fact, the real question is why are the most successful and wealthy countries mixed economies? Start with the...
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT!!! :eyes: Let me get this straight: Are Americans here on PF starting a debate about universal healthcare? Let me g...
After WW2, many wanted to make Germany an agrarian country incapable of being any kind of threat anymore. Thank's for the response, Apollodorus. And t...
Let's just think here just why nuclear energy is seen as so dangerous while as coal is simply forgotten. If you say that far more, many multiple times...
If people want to really look at how FUBAR (Fucked up beyond all reason), there's great insight into this done by an independent audit team supervisin...
Absolutely. But the when actual alternative is energy production THAT KILLS PEOPLE ALL THE TIME EVERY DAY, it's a no brainer. Let's take an example. Y...
Have to say what a meteorologist said about this. He firmly believed that an an ice age is coming and climate change (global warming or the greenhouse...
If it was only so. Still, nuclear power is a totally reasonable alternative. What's so bad in France using a lot less fossil fuel based energy product...
Or not. Somehow that narrative of creating economical fusion energy production if only there was enough money is like the narrative of "turning the pa...
And uh, how long we thought about these events finally bringing on a long awaited peace? Like, there wasn't any time? Back to the old ways of the old ...
Just as it would be obvious when asking the question "What do the people of the United States want?", you are not going to get one thing shared by all...
Well put. And it's so nice to keep things easy. If you give an answer with "On the other hand..." you seem to be confused and weak. As an Australian, ...
I think that would be in the millions perhaps to the 2,6 million or so Afghan refugees. Already what can happen is that Afghanis become again the larg...
Well, the picture is from December 1955. Some thirty years before the time of "reactionary feudal opium growers helped by Americans" and some twenty o...
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